various fields of knowledge with excellent works. He was well-received by the people. He taught jurisprudence, wrote works, was a memorizer of Hadith, and authored books in that field, although we were not pleased with his works on the Sunnah, nor his methodology therein (1).

12 - Muhyi al-Din Abu Muhammad Abd al-Qadir ibn Abd Allah ibn Janki al-Jili al-Hanbali, the Shaykh of Baghdad, who passed away in the year 561 AH (2). Al-Muwaffaq stayed at his Madrasa upon his first arrival in Baghdad, forty days before his passing, and read from 'al-Khiraqi' under him (3).

13 - Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Ahmad, Ibn al-Khashshab, the Baghdadi, the erudite scholar, the traditionist, and the Imam of grammar, who passed away in the year 567 AH (4). He read under him in Baghdad (5) and said of him: 'He was the Imam of his age in the sciences of Arabic, grammar, and linguistics. The scholars of his era would seek his legal opinions on these matters and ask him about their complexities. I attended many of his sessions to read under him, but I was unable to spend much time with him due to the large crowds around him. He spoke well regarding the Sunnah and its explanation (6).'

14 - Abu al-Fadl Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi, then al-Baghdadi, the Shafi'i, the preacher of Mosul, who passed away in the year 578 AH (7). He heard from him.